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And I say unto them, `Ye `are' holy to Jehovah, and the vessels `are' holy, and the silver and the gold `are' a willing-offering to Jehovah, God of your fathers;

וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

And we journey from the river Ahava, on the twelfth of the first month, to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God hath been upon us, and He delivereth us from the hand of the enemy and the lier in wait by the way;

וַֽנִּסְעָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

And at my hearing this word, I have rent my garment and my upper robe, and pluck out of the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sit astonished,

וָאֶמְרְטָ֞ה (ה) h “!”וָאֵשְׁבָ֖ה (ה) h “!”

And at the present of the evening I have risen from mine affliction, and at my rending my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God,

וָֽאֶכְרְעָה֙ (ה֙) h “!”וָאֶפְרְשָׂ֥ה (ה) h “!”

and say, `O my God, I have been ashamed, and have blushed to lift up, O my God, my face unto Thee, for our iniquities have increased over the head, and our guilt hath become great unto the heavens.

וָאֹמְרָ֗ה (ה) h “!”

And it cometh to pass, at my hearing these words, I have sat down, and I weep and mourn `for' days, and I am fasting and praying before the God of the heavens.

וָאֶתְאַבְּלָ֖ה (ה) h “!”

`I beseech Thee, O Lord, let, I pray Thee, Thine ear be attentive unto the prayer of Thy servant, and unto the prayer of Thy servants, those delighting to fear Thy Name; and give prosperity, I pray Thee, to Thy servant to-day, and give him for mercies before this man;' and I have been butler to the king.

וְהַצְלִֽיחָה־ (ה) h- “!”

And it cometh to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine `is' before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him;

וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

And the king saith to me (and the queen is sitting near him), `How long is thy journey? and when dost thou return?' and it is good before the king, and he sendeth me away, and I set to him a time.

וָֽאֶתְּנָ֥ה (ה) h “!”

And I come in unto the governors beyond the River, and give to them the letters of the king; and the king sendeth with me heads of a force, and horsemen;

וָאֶתְּנָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

And I go out through the gate of the valley by night, and unto the front of the fountain of the dragon, and unto the gate of the dunghill, and I am measuring about the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire.

וָאֵצְאָ֨ה (ה) h “!”

and my heart reigneth over me, and I strive with the freemen, and with the prefects, and say to them, `Usury one upon another ye are exacting;' and I set against them a great assembly,

וָאָרִ֙יבָה֙ (ה֙) h “!”וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

and say to them, `We have acquired our brethren the Jews, those sold to the nations, according to the ability that `is' in us, and ye also sell your brethren, and they have been sold to us!' and they are silent, and have not found a word.

וָאֹמְרָ֣ה (ה) h “!”

also, my lap I have shaken, and I say, `Thus doth God shake out every man, who doth not perform this thing, from his house, and from his labour; yea, thus is he shaken out and empty;' and all the assembly say, `Amen,' and praise Jehovah; and the people do according to this thing.

וָֽאֹמְרָ֡ה (ה) h “!”

Remember for me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

זָכְרָה־ (ה) h- “!”

that Sanballat sendeth, also Geshem, unto me, saying, `Come and we meet together in the villages, in the valley of Ono;' and they are thinking to do to me evil.

לְכָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

And I send unto them messengers, saying, `A great work I am doing, and I am not able to come down; why doth the work cease when I let it alone, and have come down unto you?'

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֨ה (ה) h “!”

And also, prophets thou hast appointed to call for thee in Jerusalem, saying, A king `is' in Judah, and now it is heard by the king according to these words; and now come, and we take counsel together.'

לְכָ֔ה (ה) h “!”

And I send unto him, saying, `It hath not been according to these words that thou art saying, for from thine own heart thou art devising them;'

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֤ה (ה) h “!”

And I say, `A man such as I -- doth he flee? and who as I, that doth go in unto the temple, and live? -- I do not go in.'

וָאֹמְרָ֗ה (ה) h “!”

And I discern, and lo, God hath not sent him, for in the prophecy he hath spoken unto me both Tobiah and Sanballat hired him,

וָאַכִּ֕ירָה (ה) h “!”

Be mindful, O my God, of Tobiah, and of Sanballat, according to these his works, and also, of Noadiah the prophetess, and of the rest of the prophets who have been making me afraid.

זָכְרָ֧ה (ה) h “!”

and my God putteth it unto my heart, and I gather the freeman, and the prefects, and the people, for the genealogy, and I find a book of the genealogy of those coming up at the beginning, and I find written in it: --

וָאֶקְבְּצָ֞ה (ה) h “!”

And I bring up the heads of Judah upon the wall, and appoint two great thanksgiving companies and processions. At the right, on the wall, to the dung-gate;

וָאַעֲמִ֡ידָה (ה) h “!”

and I come in to Jerusalem, and understand concerning the evil that Eliashib hath done for Tobiah, to make to him a chamber in the courts of the house of God,

וָאָבִ֣ינָה (ה) h “!”